Irish Fairy Tales

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Chapter 1

Finnian, the Abbott of Moville, went southwards and eastwards in
great haste. News had come to him in Donegal that there were yet
people in his own province who believed in gods that he did not
approve of, and the gods that we do not approve of are treated
scurvily, even by saintly men.

He was told of a powerful gentleman who observed neither Saint's
day nor Sunday. "A powerful person!" said Finnian.

"All that," was the reply. "We shall try this person's power,"
said Finnian.

"He is reputed to be a wise and hardy man," said his informant.
"We shall test his wisdom and his hardihood."

"He is," that gossip whispered—"he is a magician." "I will
magician him," cried Finnian angrily. "Where does that man
live?"

He was informed, and he proceeded to that direction without
delay. In no great time he came to the stronghold of the gentleman
who followed ancient ways, and he demanded admittance in order that
he might preach and prove the new God, and exorcise and terrify and
banish even the memory of the old one; for to a god grown old Time
is as ruthless as to a beggarman grown old.

But the Ulster gentleman refused Finnian admittance. He
barricaded his house, he shuttered his windows, and in a gloom of
indignation and protest he continued the practices of ten thousand
years, and would not hearken to Finnian calling at the window or to
Time knocking at his door. But of those adversaries it was the
first he redoubted.

Finnian loomed on him as a portent and a terror; but he had no
fear of Time. Indeed he was the foster-brother of Time, and so
disdainful of the bitter god that he did not even disdain him; he
leaped over the scythe, he dodged under it, and the sole occasions
on which Time laughs is when he chances on Tuan, the son of
Cairill, the son of Muredac Red-neck.

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